IBPS Current Affairs Quiz: 17 October 2026

This is the estimated cumulative figure for merchandise and services exports taken together during the first six months of the financial year.

The Finance Ministry's clarification records that while the Union Budget of 2003 was being discussed and Parliament was debating this repeal legislation, an amendment was moved that sought to limit any reduction of the Government's holding in IDBI.

The draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Amendment Regulations, 2026, which reached the Gazette of India on 16 October 2026, proposes that these two sugars not be added to any product intended for an infant up to the age of six months.

The correct answer is Shri Bhupender Yadav, the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, who met start-ups and innovation companies working on air pollution mitigation and himself put a set of problem statements covering nine key areas before them.

Dr Jitendra Singh told the roundtable that the Indian space economy, valued at roughly USD 9 billion at present, is expected to climb to USD 40-45 billion over the next seven to eight years as private capital, assured demand and quicker regulatory clearances take hold.

The correct answer is the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, which organised the meeting on its own campus under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

The correct answer is 20 ppm, that is 20 milligrams per kilogram, which the draft proposes as the Maximum Residue Limit for Acetamiprid in tea.

The court set up the High Powered Enquiry Committee to enquire into all aspects of the incidents of violence at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and at places outside Delhi during July 2026, and the Committee has now opened a portal so that affected persons, including affected police personnel, can send…

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority has rationalised the trade margin on the identified non-scheduled anti-cancer medicines and held it to thirty per cent of the Maximum Retail Price, using the power given by Paragraph 19 of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order of 2013.

The exact figure of the distribution works out to one crore eighteen lakh sixty one thousand six hundred and fifty five rupees.

He headed the high level team that went to the two districts of Punjab to examine how the measures against paddy stubble burning are being carried out during the harvesting season.

The fair at the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds has eighty three stalls in all, and of these eighty have been allotted to artisans, with thirty seven women among those artisans.

The sessions promoted prevention of drug use, a healthy way of living and the wider goal of a drug free country.

The Department of Commerce organised the outreach programme in the Rajasthan capital to build awareness of the benefits available under India free trade agreements and to help exporters use them in practice.

According to the clarification, the association of IDBI officers took the shareholding question to the Delhi High Court, which decided the case on 17 December 2018 and dismissed the writ petition.

These are the parent rules that the new draft, styled the Amendment Regulations of 2026, sets out to edit.

The interaction of 17 October 2026 between the Union Environment Minister and start-ups was one of a series of stakeholder engagements carried out under that campaign theme, which places a share of the responsibility for clean air on every citizen.

The Minister said the space sector was thrown open to private participation in 2019-2020 and that the five to six years since have already produced significant results, which is why the focus has shifted to building globally competitive commercial companies.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Earth Sciences, under which the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology works and which was named as the parent body in the announcement of the consultation.

The correct answer is the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the regulator under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that sets food standards and notified this draft amendment to the regulations on contaminants, toxins and residues.

The Committee has been asked to enquire into every aspect of the incidents relating to violence at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, and also at places outside Delhi, during July 2026.

Retailers, chemists, hospitals and medical institutions have to charge the reduced prices from that day and must display the revised rates at their counters, while hospitals must also show them on their websites.

Rajasthan came second and Madhya Pradesh third, so options A and B describe the next two ranks rather than the top one.

These are the machines that handle paddy straw left in the field after the harvest, and the Commission reviewed both their availability and their actual deployment in the two districts.

The correct answer is the Mysuru Dasara Exhibition Grounds in Karnataka, where the nine day fair began on the eleventh of October and will close on the nineteenth.